23 Replies

Vembu BDR suite will suit for your requirement. It has the option to replicate your files & folders and Application data like Exchange DB and SQL DB to our AWS cloud. You can download the DB and files & folders from our Cloud portal as file and restore into the respective applications.

Yes, you should have enough storage on Vembu BDR server to hold your backup data.

The Vembu BDR server accepts data from any of the mentioned client backup software. So the Vembu BDR server should have enough storage to backup locally on the server. It could be either NAS / SAN / DAS connected to the Vembu BackupServer.

On cloud side, you don't need to setup anything. Vembu BDR server has the option to replicates the backup data to our cloud exists in AWS datacentre, it costs 20 cents / per GB / per month. You can download the data from the cloud anywhere.

We have our own AWS cloud on different region and is manged by our support team.

Your backup solution is usually made up of 2 parts....(1) Backup software and related agents (2) backup storage.

You did not say what backup software you are using and how you are backing up....as in DC replicating to 2nd DC, backup SQL data base only, backing up file server at file level and backing up VMs at ESXi level ?

Most VM backup software like Veeam can backup to tape, local storage, USB/iSCSI storage or even cloud storage. AWS Glacier is just a tape or storage that does not reside locally, its not a software, so you will need to see if your backup software allows to backup to these cloud locations using some sort of API or built-in connectors.

If you have Google Apps unlimited for work, some people actually use a Google drive app that mounts the Google drive as a drive letter "e:\" then they backup to e:\ instead of tape.

You should use native SQL Server backups to back up SQL Server. System backup software like BackupExec and the others mentioned just do not offer the same recoverability as native backups. Also forums are filled with people needing help because the restore reliability of SQL Server backups from server backup software is just not sufficient, Then use the backup software to back up the SQL Server generated backups.

You should maintain a certain level of recent SQL Server backups locally on the servers (as well as in the cloud). If you have a disaster, you want to be able to get to those backups quickly and not add an hour or more to the recovery because of download speeds from the cloud.

We back up to the cloud using Cloudberry as our syncing software and back up to normal Amazon storage for 3 years, and to Amazon Glacier for 7 years (for regulatory compliance).

Glacier is storage for things you expect to never need. Getting data out of Glacier is very expensive. Regular storage we use for long term storage for things that someone, like an auditor, is likely to want to see or we may need to restore for some reason (not DR). DPM is a backup solution of its own (like a replacement for BackupExec).

We have many customers backing up SQL as well as file systems, domain controllers, VM's, etc. to us. You are going to want to look at an "app-aware" SQL backup so you are not transferring large SQL dump files every day. We can do transaction log backups hourly if needed, and on full database backups we only transmit the changed data. You get a local backup copy for fast restores plus 2 offsite copies at 2 geographically separated data centers. All data is encrypted and you control the encryption key. We provide a fully managed and monitored backup solution, freeing you and the business to focus on more strategic things.

I would also recommend a LAN Storage Discovery in which we scan your network shares and determine duplicated and type of data. It can be very helpful regardless of what solution you end up with. I'd be glad to help.

Still loved my Barracuda backup service that I used in my last job. Loved having an onsite device that I could back up to and then the cloud access for additional storage. I used my daily and current week backups locally and then moved all other older data to my cloud storage. Using a cloud only storage is a good idea until you lose your internet connection.... with my local device I could still restore (extremely fast) data even if our internet was out.

Sunith, you may want to consider Asigra Cloud Backup - it is an agentless comprehensive cloud backup and recovery software solution that is hardware agnostic.You can manage the backups yourself or you can work with one of our partners to leverage their cloud and they will manage the backups for you.

Still loved my Barracuda backup service that I used in my last job. Loved having an onsite device that I could back up to and then the cloud access for additional storage. I used my daily and current week backups locally and then moved all other older data to my cloud storage. Using a cloud only storage is a good idea until you lose your internet connection.... with my local device I could still restore (extremely fast) data even if our internet was out.

Actually this is a best practice: local - fast backup and a copy in the cloud for the 3,2,1 rule and DR.

0

This discussion has been inactive for over a year.

You may get a better answer to your question by starting a new discussion.

Know the answer? Log in to reply and help Sunith out and earn 10 points!